Posts Tagged: anti-semitism
The Boston Marathon Bombing and America’s So-Called Faith Privilege
The Boston Marathon bombing provoked enactment of what has emerged, since 9/11, as a ritual of political theater refined even beyond its long history of...
Lawsuit Threatened if Major Equities Fund Goes Through With Boycott of Israel
The Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin) is threatening legal action against the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) if it...
Not My Bible
I am not amongst those who consider it a religious crime to live outside Israel. After all, since the days of the...
British Labour Party Peer Suspended for Alleged Anti-Semitic Comments
A British political party has suspended one of its peers over his alleged claims that legal troubles were precipitated by a Jewish conspiracy against him. In...
“Jews of Egypt” Film Banned by Egyptian Officials
Jewish Chronicle - Egyptian security officials have banned the screening of a Jewish documentary at Egyptian cinemas. The ban was imposed one day before the "Jews...
Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation: Muslims Can’t be Anti-Semites
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the current Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the second largest intergovernmental organization after the United Nations, in a talk...
Alarming Rise in Anti-Semitism Danish Officials Report
Ynet - Danish officials say they're alarmed by the frequency of anti-Semitic attacks. The rise in physical and verbal assaults in Denmark is...
Erdogan Calls Zionism a “Crime Against Humanity,” UN Secretary-General Remains Silent
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan grouped Zionism with anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as a "crime against humanity" in a speech at a United Nations summit...
Lessons from Brooklyn College BDS, Barghouti, and Butler
Reader and correspondent David Lurie has directed me to some not well-publicized revelations about the Brooklyn College BDS event. To begin, the campus BDS chapter...
Response to Judith Butler at Brooklyn College
The ironic and the disingenuous are kin. Their commonality resides in a gap, which is the distance between what is said and something else. With...
Report: Greater London Area Sees 55 Percent Increase in Anti-Semitic Incidents
Anti-Semitism in the UK is growing says Community Security Trust (CST), a charity tasked with protecting the British Jewish community. According to a report released...
Website Backed by EU, UNESCO Prints Anti-Semitic Article
"[The Jews] feel inferior to the nations and societies in which they live, because of the hostility and evil rising in their hearts towards...
Two Epistemic Closures: The GOP and Israel-Critics
What do Tuesday's election results remind us of? They should recall the result of November's U.S. elections. Against all evidence - and here I do mean all...
Jonathan Freedland’s Illusions About the Nature of Modern Antisemitism
Jonathan Freedland is one of the more decent and reasonable Guardian journalists. It's sad that, at the Guardian, being a Zionist who takes anti-Jewish racism seriously warrants...
